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Rating: 1/5Do Not Buy

Cons: Do not buy this fan controller. It couldnt take only 5 fans connected to it for about a minute before it fried and killed my psu! And their customer service number seems to be "out of service". Use at your own risk.

Other Thoughts: It should have been able to support the combined volts of the fans.

Rating: 4/5Gelid Fan Controller

Pros: This product does exactly what it's designed to do. It allows for you to have complete control for up to 6 fans. It also comes with 6 sensors to give accurate information. The wiring is extremely long, this should work for most rigs. The touch screen works, and has many features. I like it!

Cons: The thermal tape is about useless, anyone wanting to purchase this fan cooler, I would recommend that they find an alternate method of securing the sensors....etc. I also wish there was software that came with this product, having something on your computer screen would make it easier to control.

Other Thoughts: For the price this is an awesome product, well done Gelid!

Rating: 4/5Hit or Miss

Pros: Does what it's supposed to, great heat sensors. Very easy to install and use. Comes with extensions for fans so you can easily utilize cable management.

Cons: Can be iffy. I bought three of these for two other people and myself. One of them the fans 4 through 6 didn't work entirely, no power, nothing, but fans 1 through 3 worked flawlessly. Could've possibly been a power supply issue.

The other two worked perfectly, and read the RPM smoothly, and allows for good fan control, which it automatically does with correct sensor placement.

Lastly, only a slight con but only supports 3pin/4pin fans.

Other Thoughts: I would always recommend this to someone who wants a lot of fans in their case, or just wants precise control of noise levels and fan speed.

Rating: 4/5

Pros: This controller makes it fairly easy to control fans and monitor their speed all while looking sleek. The touchscreen itself works well and responds quickly. I also saw no real problems viewing this from any angle. The included sticker was a nice surprise.

Cons: I could do without the locking feature. It stays locked when not using. You have to unlock it every time you want to use it and it only stays unlocked for a limited time and can be a pain. Maybe there's some way to disable this but I haven't found it.

This controller also does not allow fan speeds to be lowered to my liking. For example, my 140mm fan (~1200 RPM) can only be lowered to 850-900 RPM on lowest setting. That makes this controller excellent for finetuning RPMs but perhaps not the best if you have a high, or even moderate, rpm fan and wish to make it completely silent. Sure, a cable that lowers the fan's speed could be used, but that kind of defeats the purpose of a fan controller.

I don't much care for the included temperature sensors. What would be more useful is if this controller could be connected to the motherboard, so that CPU / GPU temperatures could be displayed and used.

Other Thoughts: This is a fairly plain, but good-looking, fan controller. No flashing lights, etc. Some people will appreciate this. Personally, I at least wish you could change the screen colors.

Rating: 5/5Really Good Fan Controller

Pros: This fan controller looks very nice and has good viewing angles. The colors on it are a nice blue, the display is responsive and stays cool, the controls on it are very nice. This fan controller also manages to track the RPM's very accurately, I put a piece of paper in front of my fans to check how much intake they get and the RPM's increased a bit to that and decreased when the paper was moved away. The temperature sensors are very good but the tape that is given is horrible, overall a very good fan controller.

Cons: The only possible downside for this would be that there is a shiny bit on the inner lip which catches some glare, but no reason to knock an egg for that.

Rating: 4/5Can control extra fans that a motherboard can't

Pros: Can control up to 6 fan circuits independently, manually or automatically. Has individual temp probes to inform controller of needed adjustments of fan speeds. Has temp reading of each probe available at the touch of a finger.

Cons: The tape that comes with the probes to attach them to the item you want to monitor for temperature does not work. It will hold for a while, but not long. Gelid needs to go to a different kind of tape. Luckily three of the four probes I am currently using were able to go into the heat sink on the power supply on the motherboard, the chipset heat sink and the fins on a GPU cooler. the 4th one is loose and merely measuring the air temp near the base of the CPU mount on the back side of the motherboard.

The first time I used this controller, I could not select fan #1 or #2. I plugged those two fans into #5 and #6 and all of the sudden I had access to #1 and #2. One other time 1 and 2 got locked out, but before I could do any testing, everything was back to normal and I haven't had any issues with this since. I will just have to keep and eye on it.

Gelid's fan speed curve is too aggressive in my opinion. Gelid might suggest I use fans that run at lower speeds to begin with, but I use only high quality fans that are known to be quiet and have a track record of durability. Top end fan speed is not at the top of my priority list.

The motherboard controls fans that are similar to those run by the Gelid controller. The motherboard fans run at a much slower speed at a given temp. I think Gelid needs to back off their fan speed curve, or update this controller so you can select the initial fan speed.

Includes extra sensor, mounting tape, power supply cord and extensions for each fan power cord.

Cons: None yet.

Other Thoughts: If you are looking to use custom cables, be aware that the power supply cord for the unit is NOT a standard plug or crimp connectors. It is 3-pin, and larger than fan connectors.

If you need to replace this use a standard 6-pin plug, shave off the row of unused pin outs, and shorten the length by about 1/8 inch. In all, this took a few days of frustration ordering incorrect parts, and then about 15 minutes with a sanding block on a spare 6 pin connector -- not a real problem.

Rating: 5/5I bought a dud rewrite May 10, 2014

Pros: i'm rewriting my earlier review. "I bought a dud'. Upon examining everything several times, I used a volt meter to determine my mollex wires were faulty. Repaired the wiring and Wella! It works and works well.

Cons: The sensor tape doesn't stick very well.

Other Thoughts: I'm glad I took the time and checked the wiring. Looking at the wring, they looked great so I didn't suspect they would be faulty. Instead, I wasted time trying to track a hardware ghost.

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